Fraud case against a former project manager

THE fraud case against a former project manager at the Grosvenor Mine near Moranbah will return to court in Brisbane on January 29.

In September Glenn James Tonkin, 50, of Mount Samson near Brisbane, was accused of rorting $4.5 million from Anglo American between 2013 and 2014.

After freezing his assets and hiring investigators to probe his past, shortly before Christmas the company slapped him with another $5.3 million damages claim - alleging he also rorted the company when he worked to expand a copper mine in South America between 2009 and 2011.

Tonkin is accused of using an elaborate scheme of fake invoices to secretly siphon company money to his offshore bank accounts in the Caribbean and Hong Kong, according to documents filed in a civil suit in Brisbane's Supreme Court.

The claims arose in September while he was on a $315,000 salary working as the project manager of a central Queensland mine - where he had the power to approve payments to contractors.